' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' In The Deling Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding! (For Onelia) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

She never did like
my singing in the shower.

'Dry up! '
she'd shout from the kitchen

so I had to
give it up.

Took up
alpine yodeling in the shower

instead

but the divorce
put the dampners

on that

I was too sad to sing
and had become

a silent yodeler

Took up banjo playing
in the shower

until the strings got rusty

and the neighbours
snapped, dialed: 999.

Now all I do
in the shower...is...shower

come clean
go to bed alone

sing and yodel and banjo
to my heart's content

in my dreams

in my dreams